Clothes-wringer.



PATENTED DEG; 15, 1903.

P. HOOKER.

CLOTHES WRINGER. y

APPLICATION 'ILED MAY 13, 1902.

ND MODEL.

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UNITED STATES P.fit-rinvii* FFICE.

FREDRIK HOOKER, OF BALTIMORE, MARYLAND.

CLOTHES-Welness.

SPEQIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 746,963, dated December 15, 1903.

Application liled May 13, 1902. Serial No. 107,097. (N 'o model.) A

To all whom it may concern).-

Be itknown that I, FREDRIK HOOKER, a citizen of the United States, residing at Baltimore, State of Maryland, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Clothes-Y V tions and arrangement and combination of parts hereinafter fully described and claimed, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, in which- Figure 1 is a front View of a wringer embodying my invention, one of the standards being partly broken away to better illustrate the construction. Fig. 2 is a transverse sectional view, on a larger scale, of one of the standards, illustrating the bearings and their protecting-washers. Fig. 3 is a horizontal sectional view of one of the standards, the section being taken through one ofthe bearings.

The wringer illustrated in Fig. 1 ofthe accompanying drawings is provided with two vertical standards a, each of which is provided with a vertical slot b, forming two uprights to each standard. The slot b is provided at its lower end with a roamed-out partly-circular portion c and a verticallyelongated roamed-ont portion d above and spaced from the lowermost reamed-out portion c, and the uprights formed by the slots b are provided in their opposing faces with grooves or recesses e.

Y The two rubber rollers f of the wringer are provided at opposite ends with shafts or gudg'eons g, which are mounted to rotate in antifriction-bearings. -Each of said bearings comprises in the present instance a cylindrical sleeve h, mounted in a reamed-out porraces in contact with a beveled bushing k,

which ts within the outer sleeve h and is held rigid'by pins Zor the like. The inner collar i is shorter than the cylindrical sleeve h, and two washers m, preferably of rubber, are fitted one within each end of the said sleeve, as shown in Fig. 3, whereby to excude moisture from the balls. These washers are secured to the inner walls of the sleeve h, at the ends thereof, preferably by insoluble cement.

The gudgeons of the rubber rollers f pass through the washers m and are tted in the rotatable inner 'collars fi, and the said washers dt tightly within the outer cylindrical sleeves h and extend over the ends of the inner collars il, as seen in Fig. 3, thereby effectively excluding moisture from the antifriction-balls j.

The two sleeves h of the lowermost rubber roller f are secured i'n place between the two pairs of uprights, preferably by being insertyed from the top of the slot b and forced into the lowermost partly circular reamed out portions of the slot, as shown in Fig. 2, said latter reamed-out portions beingof just sufficient size to receive said sleeves and to prehand-screws p to increase or lessen the presy sure between the two rubber rollers.

Having thus fully described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

A clothes-wringer, provided with standards having vertical slots which form two upright-,s the ends of the latter whereby to exclude moisfor each standard and each of said uprights ture from the balls, as set forth. Io

being provided in that face which is adjacent In testimony whereof I ax my signature to the other upright with recesses; wringingin the presence of two witnesses.

rollers whose shafts are provided with balll FREDRIK HOOKER. bearings mounted in said recesses; and wash- Witnesses:

ers fitting around said shafts, one at each side CHARLES L. VIETSOH,

of the ball-bearings and forming closures for FREDERICK S. STITT. 

